About

Hello,I am a composer, musician, artist, mad professor, evil genius, label mogul... only my expert skills in procrastinating is standing between me and total world domination.Maybe you heard some of my music in a film or commercial or TV program, but you had no idea - my work is often licensed to accompany moving images, or I write directly to picture.As an artist my main project is Ugress. I run my own label Uncanny Planet, a place for all of my projects and ideas to be realized. You can check out my projects right here on this website. I also have a separate professional website geared towards my composer career at gislemartensmeyer.com.I am a child of the 80ies, I started out making music on the Commodore 64, and continued up along the tracker route of C64, Amiga, PC and then Mac sequencers. I had a breakthru with the Ugress debut album "Resound" in 2002. When I'm not touring or lost in the woods I I spend my time in the Uncanny Laboratory studio. Which is really just a laptop anywhere.I write a lot of different music, but if there is a core I would like to describe it as cinematic sci-fi electronica.You can read a list of software and a list of hardware I use. There is also a FAQ. If you need to get in touch, that is very easy.

2016 Häxan (Soundtrack&#41; (Web&#41;&#58;

Tracklist:01.Ugress - Cloister Collapse (10:06)02.Ugress - Burning Rainbows (4:15)03.Ugress - All That Glitter Has Angst (6:25)04.Ugress - Walpurgis Night Flight (5:12)05.Ugress - Festung Skurrilität (3:17)06.Ugress - Square Root Of Minus Curious (6:28)07.Ugress - Make Believe Beloved (3:46)08.Ugress - Häxan (1:48)09.Ugress - Carcas Bandits (3:17)10.Ugress - Pyrasomnabulist (5:00)11.Ugress - Conspire To Inquire (8:55)Häxan – The Witch (1922) is an episodic docu-horror about witchcraft.The brand new score for Häxan is made and performed by Norwegian cinema-electro mad scientists Ugress, and was performed to the film in European cinemas the season 2015-2016.
This release consists of selected cues, themes and parts of the original live score.The score is created from hundreds of recordings of intimate, microscopic sounds of performing sorcery.
Burning leaves, dissecting frogs, popping eyes.
The score also uses real sounds recorded at Blocksberg, a mountain in central Germany.
Historically located on the border of East and West Germany during the cold war, Blocksberg became a listening post for the Soviet regime.
The mountain is to this day still filled with our contemporary tools of witchcraft and sorcery: Surveillance equipment.The score for Haxan combines all these sonic elements to support and enhance a narrative of suppression, fear of “the others” and invisible abuse of power.released December 9, 2016Written, composed and produced by Gisle Martens Meyer. Electric guitar by Thomas T Dahl.

2018 The Wrong Future (Extended Edition&#41; (Web&#41;&#58;

Tracklist:01.Ugress - There Is No Here, Here (4:50)02.Ugress - Dreamstroyer (4:15)03.Ugress - Mending A Tear In The Fabric Of The Night (3:40)04.Ugress - Better Living Through Algorithms (4:38)05.Ugress - Dead In A Dreamweb (5:22)06.Ugress - The Little Cloud Who Wouldn't And The Rainbow Who Couldn't (6:30)07.Ugress - All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (4:03)08.Ugress - Rift 22 (5:31)24Bit ReleaseThe future is broken. Technology has triumphed. The machines and their algorithms in the clouds, have already won. We are the product. But in a desolate, abandoned and post-apocalyptic landscape of broken devices, empty batteries, and dead screens… a black angel… rises.The Wrong Future is the 7th album from Ugress, your favorite courier of dark, dystopian and dancy electronica to countless clubs, stages, festivals, films, TV shows and video games. Ugress has consistently presented a playful and mad-sciencey retro-flirt with “the gloomy future” – and wow, suddenly, it happened.The Wrong Future is a heartbroken love letter to a naive dream of quirky B-movie sci-fi futures… that has become our reality. The album is released digitally and on vinyl on April 13th, through the artists own indie label Uncanny Planet. Distribution by Phonofile / The Orchard / Musikkoperatørene.released April 13, 2018

2011-2013 Planret U EP's (Web)

Planet U was a project running from 2011-2013, with new EPs continuously released.Today, November 29th, it is exactly 10 years since the first Ugress album (E-Pipe vinyl EP) was released.Lots of stuff happened. Blah blah, history, boring.Today I start releasing the fifth Ugress album, "Planet U". First track, Hermit Routines. Future, planets, exciting!As the sharp reader quickly might observe, dearest me, is that track a full album? Is he mad? No. Yes.I release this album in very, very slow motion. I'll go deeper into why and how I'm doing this over the next days and weeks as I release more and more material, but the biggest and simplest reason is: Me.I've noticed, whenever I release an album, the moment I release it, I don't care about it anymore. I'm done, couldn't care less, good luck, nice knowing you, NEXT! This is unfortunate. I should be enthusiastic, happy, promote it, nurture it. But I don't, because I'm finished, I'm tired of it, I focus on something else. My interest is the journey, not the destination.Therefore, I simply flip the album release process around.Instead of releasing an album when I don't care about it, I release it in realtime while I am in the midst of it, when I care deeply about it, love to talk about it, show what I'm doing. The fun part.I have a lot of material developed, there's even a back story. Now I start wrapping it up track by track and put it out as it is finished, one each week. I have a bunch of musicians, vocalists, people I'll be working with over the next few months, I have lots of stuff I want to try out, experiment.I will probably put out both fantastic stuff, and terrible stuff (I probably always do). It's ok to fail. I can then document and talk about it as it develops. This schedule also allows me to do all other projects simultaneously, and I can let everything influence each other. (Or not, if necessary.)This is the tiny start of a large endeavour. In the end, this will probably be a physical product, but exactly WHAT, I don't know yet. The end isn't terribly important, rather the road intrigues.http://www.ugress.com/post.asp?id=1496

2018 Ugress feat. The Internet - There Is No Here, Here (Web&#41;&#58;

Tracklist:01.Ugress feat. The Internet - There Is No Here, Here (4:50)24BitFirst track from upcoming Ugress album "The Wrong Future". Featuring a huge, crowd-sourced Internet choir consisting of thousands of voices.Cover artwork by Stephan Hövelbrinks.released March 23, 2018Performed by Ugress and The Internet.

2018 Black Anorak (Web&#41;&#58;

Tracklist:01.Ugress - The Deepest Veil (6:11)02.Ugress - Toil 22 (3:08)03.Ugress - Anoraks Assemble (2:39)04.Ugress - [ominous music playing] (4:09)Faeries of norse mythology roam a post-apocalyptic landscape. The gloomy and groovy Black Anorak blends the sonic textures of black metal, norse folk and abandoned ruins with dark electronica and film music.Created by media artist and composer Gisle Martens Meyer, the album references cult norwegian action-music scores from the 80ies like Orion’s Belt and Etter Rubicon, while also incorporating elements of black metal, folk music and using samples from abandonded buildings and infrastructure in western norwegian fjords.Black Anorak features contributions from folk musician Annlaug Børsheim on kveding, a particular norwegian vocal song technique, and the Hardangerfiddle, a traditional western norwegian string instrument, with a double set of strings to create sympathetic resonance to the main strings.released November 16, 2018